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Wind turbine generators in Wyoming.

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[teospower]

@WYburros Ever heard of recycling batteries?

[pmgodfrey]

- @ WYburros -

They don't "require" batteries to operate - but they do need to store their energy somewhere.

You can recycle the batteries and recover nearly all the material and build new batteries...it is not necessary - or recommended to bury them.

[WYburros]

FREE??? every wind turbine needs batteries-lots of them. Just like a car battery they die and need to be thrown away--where do we bury all of them? Is this the answer we really need to be looking at? Wind turbines have been around for allot of years-called windmills out here in the ranching community. 30 turbines will only power 15,000 homes. Is that enough efficiency? I don't think so!

[daeclipse03]

their positioned in the countryside in wyoming because thats the major wind corridor of the united states you uneducated fuck. they don't pick and choice where they all go. out west is the best place to put them so they can produce the greatest amount of electricity. think. do you really want to know what will happen in the future when we don't have any oil left. I don't !!

[randomnessrulez92]

wind TURBINE

[wondersax]

not completely free. they're really expensive, but eventually, they pay for themselves. I think that the whole world needs to be powered by these.

[windrivercountrykid]

-----Always wanted to get near one of these----

[tk421gunslinger]

It's no good putting a turbine within a city limits. The wind propagation path lessens as buildings disrupt it. So by the time the wind reaches a turbine, the actual power output is not worth the cost of maintaining a turbine. And since the nature of wind is to change direction, it really doesn't matter where one puts a turbine. Also turbines are designed to be placed on a hill, due to the fact as the wind goes up a hill, the velocity of that wind increases, and increases power.

[leahnewyork]

Did I say get rid of wind turbines? No, I said: Get them out of the countryside and move them to the city. Move them to the city, WHERE I LIVE. You can't get less NIMBY than that. This is a complex issue. Keep your mind open. Keep breathing. Wage understanding, not war. And please read the whole post and try not to assume. p.s. I'm no oil company. I work at an arts and ed nonprofit, for crying out loud. Now, then. Any ideas for deploying turbines in the city _instead_ of the countryside?

[leahnewyork]

Especially when you are upset with posts such as mine, please try not to assume. I would also appreciate your being civil. Living in NYC allows me to be quite green. I don't own a car, I take public transp., etc. And I practice other green habits such as consuming comparatively little in the way of products, switching off lights in rooms I'm not using, avoiding excess packaging, reusing stuff and so on. I do rent a car to travel on vacation. I don't have kids, which has saved lots of fuel, too.